Report
Why the iPad will Change Everything
By
Ms. Natsasi Chaiman ID 53034490
Ms. Pimchanok Boonmak ID 53060776
Present
Dr. Namtip Wipawin
IBC 101 Course title : Access to library and Information System
Abstract
When it comes to new iPad products and widgets, you can always count on Apple. Apple has always considered accessories and widgets as important and they have always added some new items in these categories. Now for iPad, they have yet again added few new accessories and widgets. Lets see about some of these accessories and widgets…
One of the most favourite iPad products is Cases For iPad: As the name implies, Apple has made cases for iPad so it can shield your iPad from any damage. No matter where you are and what you are doing, these cases will always protect your iPad. Aren’t these cases very handy? Thanks to this, you can now carry your iPad and use it anywhere, without worrying about any damage to it.
Keyboard With iPad: You can use keyboard dock with your iPad or you can also use the wireless keyboard of apple with it. With wireless keyboard, you don’t have to waste time to connect your iPad with it, just bring out your wireless keyboard and start working on your iPad.
There are many other iPad products and widgets than these, don’t think that these accessories are the only ones. For instance, you can find many accessories that can connect your iPad with other devices like TV, your PC, iPod, iPhone and many others. With these many accessories and widgets, Apple has made iPad more interesting than it already is.
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Introduction
Conclusion
Recommendation
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Introduction
What's the big deal about Apple's iPad, currently arriving in stores on the biggest wave of hype since, well, Apple's iPhone? The easy answer is that the iPad comes from Apple, and we always expect big things from Apple because it is run by Steve Jobs, whose California garage was the birthplace of the personal computer in 1976. Since then, Jobs has transformed computing by making machines people actually like to use. He's changed the movie business, buying Pixar and ushering in the era of computer animation, and he's led a takeover of the music business with the iPod and the iTunes music store. Then came the iPhone, and even now, nearly three years after its introduction, no other phone comes close
Conclusion
Think Really Different
Jobs is a relentless perfectionist whose company creates such beautifully designed products that they have changed our expectations about how everything around us should work. He has an uncanny ability to cook up gadgets that we didn't know we needed, but then suddenly can't live without. The iPad is his personal pet project. It's something he's been working on for years, reportedly even while he was recuperating from a liver transplant. Jobs calls it "a truly magical and revolutionary device," and supposedly has told people close to him that the iPad is the most important thing he's ever done.
Which is why so many of us raced to San Francisco in January to get an up-close view of the miraculous tablet. Yet my first thought, as I watched Jobs run through his demo, was that it seemed like no big deal. It's a bigger version of the iPod Touch, right? Then I got a chance to use an iPad, and it hit me: I want one. Like the best Apple products, the user interface is so natural it disappears. The iPad runs on the iPhone operating system, so it's even easier to use than a Mac. Like the iPhone, the iPad is a sleek, slim device. It has a nice 9.7-inch screen, weighs only one and a half pounds, and can play movies for 10 hours on a single battery charge. Right away I could see how I would use it. I'd keep it in the living room to check e-mail and browse the Web. I'd take it to the kitchen and read The New York Times while I eat breakfast. I'd bring it with me on a plane to watch movies and read books.
That may not be life-changing, but is it worth 500 bucks? Yup. Done. Sold. No wonder, then, that by some accounts Apple has received preorders for 240,000 iPads, and some analysts project it could sell up to 5 million units in the product's first 12 months. One early adopter is Steve Wozniak, who cofounded Apple with Jobs. Woz has already ordered three iPads and plans to camp out in front of an Apple store the night before the iPad's debut, just for kicks. "We all say we want things to be simpler, and now here is this simple thing. I think it will be a huge success," Wozniak says.
But the very simplicity of the iPad masks its transformational power. Some say the iPad heralds a new era of computing, and I'm inclined to believe them. The interface is so intuitive ” navigating with your fingers rather than a keyboard and mouse ” that it will change what we expect from our computers. Today we talk about
"getting on the Internet," but with iPad you can have a persistent online connection, and that's a pretty profound shift. Combine the form factor with the 24/7 link to a store, and you have the perfect machine for impulse purchases. The iPad could eventually become your TV, your newspaper, and your bookshelf. Pretty soon, Apple might even become your cable company by selling subscriptions, via iTunes, to individual shows or channels. Say you're reading the latest Henning Mankell on your iPad. While you're sitting there with it in your lap, why not check your e-mail or flip on an episode of The Office?
Perhaps more important, this elegant little device comes loaded with Jobs's grandiose ambition and is yet another example of his willingness to defy conventional wisdom and bend the ethos of Silicon Valley to his own will. The Internet is supposed to be all about freedom and choice” yet here comes Steve Jobs with an Internet that is a completely closed system. Apple not only sells you the device, but also operates the only store on the planet that sells software for it. Such "walled gardens" were supposed to be a thing of the past, cracked open first by the freewheeling PC revolution and then demolished by the anything-goes-and-everything-is-free World Wide Web. Jobs figures he can get away with this radical lockdown because the products Apple makes are so good, outstripping the imaginations of even the most engaged consumer. Jobs argues that this tighter control allows Apple to create a more seamless user experience ” your iTunes account stores your credit-card information, which makes it very, very easy to buy stuff. There's no friction. Thinking about an old song from high school? Go to iTunes, grab it, pay a buck, and listen. I do that all the time now on my iPhone, and I'll probably make bigger purchases”movies, books, TV series” for my iPad. In fact, a closed system may be the only way to deliver the kind of techno-Zen experience that Apple has become known for
Recommendation
Some Good Things About iPad
The iPad has an onscreen keyboard, as well as an external keyboard. Many people were finding it difficult to use the onscreen keyboard of iPad. Since, the user has to hold iPad from one hand and use it with another, which is constantly criticized to be difficult. With the external keyboard, there is no need to type with one hand, you can now use both hand to type and use iPad easily. However, the onscreen keyboard is not bad too; it is fun to use it.
Prior to the launch of iPad, many people were expecting that iPad will be very expensive. There were even some rumors that iPad price would range from USD700-1000. However, when iPad was released and it was tagged with the price starting from USD499, a load of people were surprised and pleased to see that iPad is not that expensive. Most people were amazed to see that iPad cost little more than Kindle, keeping in mind that iPad has more functions than Kindle; the iPad is a better buy than Kindle, which is only capable of reading ebooks.
The iPad has more than 150000 apps, including the apps of iPhone and iPod, since iPad is capable of running iPhone and iPod apps.
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